ready reckoner

1. 1.

   a handbook of tables used to facilitate computation

   Synonymsreckoner

   Broaderhandbook

Questions about ready reckoner

What does ready reckoner mean?

ready reckoner means "a handbook of tables used to facilitate computation".

What is another word for ready reckoner?

Close synonyms include reckoner. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ready reckoner a common word?

ready reckoner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.